Like the serpent of the Ouroboros that is forever eating its own tail, the Twitter craze that is Ed Balls has come full circle with two tweets by the shadow chancellor and his cabinet colleague wife Yvette Cooper.

At 4:20pm, the exact time of the original tweet in 2011, Twitter users took to the micro-blogging site to repeat his two-word musing.

Despite saying he wasn’t going to take part in the ‘celebrations’ on Sunday, Mr Balls himself tweeted: ‘Ok, ok.. Because it would be rude not to..! RT @edballsmp: Ed Balls.’

His wife also: ‘RT @edballsmp: Ed Balls’.

Ed Balls’ wife Yvette Cooper joined in the fun (Picture: Twitter)

Former deputy prime minister John Prescott has earlier kicked off the tributes to the now infamous Ed Balls tweet, by changing his profile picture to a mug shot of the Labour MP for Morley and Outwood and updating his status with those two immortal words – Ed Balls.

The joke dates back two years ago, when Mr Balls was apparently doing some Twitter research.

John Prescott has joined the Ed Balls party today (Picture: Twitter)

But rather than put his name into the search function, he tweeted it instead, resulting in @EdBallsMP tweeting, yes, ‘Ed Balls’.

The original post was never deleted and has been re-tweeted more than 15,000 times.

Mr Balls had initially said he was not going to join in with the fun today but apparently couldn’t resist checking in to see how Twitter was getting on, posting on Sunday morning: ‘Crazy as it is, I hope you all have a fabulous day – I’m off out now for a long Sunday walk…’

The original Ed Balls Ed Balls tweet has been retweeted 15,000 times (Picture: Twitter)